cubbyhole

Example Sentences

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“I don’t begrudge anyone retiring,” longtime regular Daniel Eiben said Sept. 15, poking his head into Yoshimura’s cluttered cubbyhole of an office on the store’s penultimate day in business.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

As Kumar planted himself in his cubbyhole, Madhu, a volunteer who addressed him as “boss,” called for advice on whether a village temple should install surveillance cameras.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2022

She made a cubbyhole in some bamboo in her back garden and read The Secret Garden.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2019

Or merely find your little cubbyhole in the cosmos.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2019

It was my plot of earth, my cubbyhole.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd